Jan 2 2009

What To Watch For From Microsoft At CES

Windows Mobile: At a dinner in Santa Clara, Calif., in early September, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer boasted of Windows Mobile’s standing in the smart phone market: Over the past year, he said, smart phones with Windows Mobile installed had outsold both Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone.
When Ballmer takes the stage at the [...]

Jul 24 2008

Zune Phone Really In The Works?

The success of the iPhone, both the original and the recently released 3G model, has fueled rumors that Microsoft is working internally on a similar phone built on the Zune audio player.  The Zune player has failed to compete against the iPod family as grandly perhaps as Microsoft wished but perhaps the folks in Redmond [...]

Sep 4 2007

Zune Phone ‘not unreasonable’

On September 4, 2007, Microsoft said that it is “not unreasonable” for the company to introduce a mobile phone combined with features of its Zune digital music player to compete with Apple’s iPhone.
The Zune phone, a topic of speculation for months since Microsoft introduced its first digital music player last year, could be driven by [...]